Rainy days · Alaska
How often does it rain in Fairbanks?
Fairbanks gets its wettest days in summer, right when it finally has daylight to see them.
Fairbanks gets measurable rain or snow on about 107 days a year, adding up to about 12 inches.
November usually brings Fairbanks about 10 wet days and 0.7 inches. The wettest month is usually August, with about 14 wet days, and the driest is April, with about 4 wet days. That makes Fairbanks number 85 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 9 | 0.6 |
| February | 7 | 0.5 |
| March | 6 | 0.4 |
| April | 4 | 0.3 |
| May | 6 | 0.5 |
| June | 11 | 1.5 |
| July | 13 | 2.3 |
| August | 14 | 2.1 |
| September | 11 | 1.4 |
| October | 10 | 0.8 |
| November | 10 | 0.7 |
| December | 9 | 0.6 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Savannah, Georgia: about 108 wet days a year
- Little Rock, Arkansas: about 106 wet days a year
- Tampa, Florida: about 108 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Fairbanks area, 1991 to 2020 (at least 30 complete years behind every month), via the Applied Climate Information System. A wet day here means at least a hundredth of an inch of rain or melted snow.